Like the Columbia University group, the CFR task force insists that the largely negative images of Africa propagated in the US media obstruct what it describes as a continental "renaissance" which makes "the present era ... the most promising period since the onset of African independence 40 years ago."

Bamshad et al. (2004) used the data from Rosenberg et al. (2002) to investigate the extent of genetic differences between individuals within continental groups relative to genetic differences between individuals between continental groups.

Yet the British, unlike their peers in continental Europe, appear culturally more willing to cope with what Cameron has dubbed a new "age of austerity," with polls showing almost twice as many Britons supporting deep debt reduction as opposing it.